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I Can't Stay Long

Reading this book is like a holiday — an interlude of pure pleasure.

In it Laurie Lee has collected all of his occasional writing that he cares to preserve, and proves himself to be as much a magician in essay form as he is in his full-length prose works. Some of these pieces come from a world which is now well known and loved by almost everyone: that of the Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider with Rosie. One is tragic and deeply moving, inspired by a visit to Aberfan a year after the disaster there. Many were brought home by Laurie Lee the traveller, from Holland, Tuscany, Mexico, Ireland, the West Indies, a film festival in Cannes. In all of them he displays the gifts that make him one of the best-loved writers now at work in Britain. This is a collection to buy in pairs — one for the bedside, and one to give to a friend.

Cover design and illustration by John Gorham.

  • Pages
  • 334
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780745131849
  • Genres
  • travel, biography, essays
  • Release date
  • 1995